Fragment of 1870 Field Diary (LXXVI-[LXXVI])
David Livingstone

Date of composition: 16 January 1871
Place of composition: Bambarre
Repository: David Livingstone Centre, Blantyre, United Kingdom
Shelfmark: 297b
Clendennen & Cunningham number(s): Field Diaries, 037
Digital edition and date: Livingstone Online, 2016
Publisher: University of Maryland Libraries, College Park, MD, USA
Project id: liv_000208
TEI encoding: Adrian S. Wisnicki, Megan Ward, Heather F. Ball, Ashanka Kumari, Alexander Munson

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LXXVI 16th January 1871 Ramadan ended last [4]
night and it is probable my people & others from the
cohort will begin to travel {#} after three days of feasting
It has been so rainy I could have been done little though
5I had had {#} people {#} {#}

22nd a party reported to be in the way hither - This
is likely enough - {#}but reports are so often false doubts
arise - Muhamad says he will give men when the
party of Hassa ni comes or when Dugumbe
10arrives My Nassickers cooly assert
that they did not desert after this
it will be im- possible to take the
ringleaders{#} but some
will believe{#} them as for
15instance Mr Tozer & Co

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There is no desert in all the
5country said to be travelled over
It is every where fertile & covered
with rank vegetation = this is the
most unlikely part of the tale